The Spirit ("Phantom Man") was a heavyweight work at the beginning of the year, and just being hooked with the name Frank Miller is enough to confirm its visual impact guarantee. This Uncle Sam, who is over fifty years old, still has the same passion-at least judging from his active in the film industry in recent years, his ambition can be described as rising; this visual "devil" wandering in painting and shadow, uses his talent as a wizard Combines the aesthetics of comics and movies with ease. Undoubtedly, to put a new comic book hero on the screen, no one can properly compare Frank, who is now a cartoonist and director. The black-and-white generalized comic film aesthetics he created in "Sin City" will surely shock people who have watched this film for a long time, and the memory is especially deep. And "Spartan 300 Warriors", which was also filmed based on his comics, was also a strange flower in the jungle of the movie at that time-using filter color processing, although it is not a strong contrast between black and white in "Sin City", But the faint yellow tone that always envelopes the film also visually drives the viewer to align with the story, creating a shock of being in an epic myth. His films pursue the visual awe-inspiring as his comics.
The Spirit is Frank Miller's self-proclaimed tribute to his original author Will Eisner. The protagonist of this manga that was deeply moved by his first encounter at the age of 13, has special abilities and masks to hide his identity, like all American heroes, as well as the duty to fight crime-Spirit is the name of the hero. It originated from this originally a policeman named Danny Cot who died in a mission and magically resurrected from the grave and stretched out his hand. This is probably one of the most embarrassing scenes of the birth of a hero; then he ran to his The old boss explained his resurrection, and finally came the sentence "I should have a new name." Then the old sheriff who was not scared uttered the word very meaningfully, spirit. And following the conventions of all heroic movies, spirit also has his ten-thousand-year-old opponent-octopus, which seems to be a monster with the same immortality and extraordinary power in the movie. And the setting of this extraordinary power well pave the way for the terrifying scene of the octopus's pair of giant guns and the flying sand and rocky bullets in the final battle at the end of the film.
Frank Miller continued to implement his comic film aesthetics in the spirit, with the same filter lenses and strong contrasting tones-this time focusing on the black costume and bright red tie of the spirit, so that the protagonist The appearance of the four is amazing. However, this visual awe-inspiring was greatly compromised in the first encounter between the spirit and the octopus that followed closely-these two evenly matched men staged a rival scene that is probably the least level of Hollywood heroes. It can be guaranteed. Most people who watched this section of the film will not have any objections to the above words. After all, the two men are fighting like children-and far from being as fierce as the gangsters who really fight-pushing and pulling, shooting, slashing, and smashing in the mud, no one can kill anyone, and the one who ends up is paralyzed. All over the mud in the quagmire. This sense of absurdity and comical involuntary smile is exactly the same as the imitation of the Japanese samurai when Dr. Octopus was checking the booty, and Hitler's spoof when he captured the spirit later. So that I was awakened after watching the movie. It turned out that the lens filters with almost similar dull tones were used, but the style of "The Spirit" is far different from the solemnity and majesty of "Spartan 300 Warriors". Frank Miller used different colors to outline the same vivid conspicuousness, prominence and uniqueness as the red tie of spirit.
I don’t know if this is what Frank calls “innovation based on faithfulness to the original book”, but apparently he has done more successfully on another point he emphasized-that is to shape his true protagonist, Danny’s first love. De Sharif. Those gorgeous and sexy costumes are perfectly matched with the yellowing filter colors used by Frank. Sander’s appearance is always reflected in her convex body, showing alluring charm, greatly changing the spirit on the screen. The limelight, at least for male audiences, is unquestionable. In Sander's first appearance, when facing the octopus's turmoil, whether it was pouring into the water slowly after freezing or swimming in the water, the sexy beauty has been expressed to the extreme. This makes people wonder whether the filter of the fifty-year-old man is just for the protagonist in his mind. Even if it is not, Sander is undoubtedly the film's tone and get the perfect combination of character, but also the most attractive in a different kind of light and shadow in Frank's woman
not to be lyrical oral and cities at the beginning of the movie to overlook fool, this The film is far from a dignified heroic poem like its screen tone. This is a gift for Frank, a man in his fifties, to the movie atmosphere after the economic tsunami. It is as fresh and dazzling as Spirit's tie. After the exaggerated comic movie vision, there is exaggerated spoof humor. It's a movie that smiles unconsciously at a certain moment. Maybe Spirit, the handsome hero with a dazzling bright red tie, a long gown, and a handsome face left us with far more jokes than his heroic deeds. In any case, Frank put a new hero on the screen for us; besides, the beating of the fingers of the bombed octopus at the end of the film seems to indicate that the hero's story is not over yet. We can look forward to Frank's interpretation of this new hero in the future.
View more about The Spirit reviews
